American Bar Association to call for moratorium in Indiana

This coming Tuesday (2/20), the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project will release an extensive report which calls for a moratorium on the death penalty here in Indiana. For those of you not familiar with the concept of a moratorium, it essentially halts all executions indefinitely while keeping capital punishment as legal and a potential future measure. To date, 9 of the 38 states with death penalty statutes have imposed a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

The report's findings will be announced at a press conference this Tuesday at 2:30.

Several friends of ND ASK, former Indiana Governor Joe Kernan, Senator John Broden, and Paula Sites, were a part of the panel that has worked so diligently to discover and interpret the facts around the issue of the death penalty and we thank all of the panel members for their hard and invaluable work.

We applaud their recommendation for a moratorium and eagerly anticipate reading their analysis that lead to this conclusion. We'll post a link to the report as soon as it's available as well as excerpts and comments.